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What to the Black Man is 4th of July in 2017?

David McGuire indy.education/blog - July 4, 2017

It has been 240 years since the Declarations of Independence was signed and we still haven’t reached the status of those words, “We hold...

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50 Years after Riots: Watts Struggles, Cautions Ferguson and Baltimore

Curtis Bunn - Urban News Service - August 19, 2015

Fifty years ago this month, Watts was ablaze. The citizens of this all-black Los Angeles neighborhood had grown exasperated with that era’s racial inequities,...

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De Novo: Shock, Paralysis, and the Rebuilding of Trust

Roxana Bell - December 8, 2014

Last Tuesday, a pregnant friend of mine learned that she and her husband were expecting a boy. Their elation was almost immediately tempered with...

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Enough

Jessica R. Key - December 4, 2014

In the wake of the grand jury’s decision not to indict Darren Wilson, a white Ferguson police officer, in the death of 18-year-old Michael...

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A visit to Ferguson, U.S.A.

LESLIE L. FULLER - December 4, 2014

I’m a mother, a writer, and a resident of Indiana. I visited Ferguson, Mo., the weekend of Nov. 21. I am white, and I...

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Community reels with sorrow after Ferguson decision

SHANNON WILLIAMS - December 4, 2014

Like many workplaces across the country, the Indianapolis Recorder Newspaper office was abuzz the day following the “no indictment” announcement in the criminal case...

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NYPD officer not indicted in Eric Garner death

VICTORIA DAVIS - December 3, 2014

A little over a week after Darren Wilson, Ferguson Police Officer who shot and killed unarmed teen Michael Brown, was not indicted by the...

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Black lawyers to challenge police brutality in 25 cities

Freddie Allen - September 11, 2014

In an effort to combat police brutality in the Black community, the National Bar Association (NBA) recently announced plans to file open records requests...

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